![]() Despite being a major inciting incident in the War of 2016, the base’s demise, which presumably would have been pretty cool to watch, isn’t shown or even really addressed. We learn about the Saturn military outpost in the same sentence we learn it’s also been destroyed by aliens. That Saturn base is actually one of the earliest indicators that Independence Day: Resurgence has its shit less together than its predecessor. People pop off to visit the Moon as casually as I might pop down to the deli (they also enjoy something called “Moon milk,” which I think is just milk, drunk on the Moon), and humans have established military defense systems through space, including one on Saturn. Independence Day: Resurgence opens by telling us all the positive, fascinating changes that have happened on Earth since the War of 1996-the United States has a beloved female president united against our common alien foe, all human-on-human war has ceased and, thanks to tech left behind by the alien invaders, humans now have the potential to travel the galaxy with unimaginable speed. It’s been twenty years since the first Independence Day came out, and, in the universe of the movie, it’s also been twenty years since Will Smith’s Captain Hiller kicked alien ass and saved humanity. But that would have required all the interesting moments that occurred conspicuously off-screen in this sequel to be given the focus they deserved, and what fun is focusing on plot and character development when you can just blow shit up? Amidst the clunky exposition and embarrassing callbacks to the first film and disheartening one-liners delivered by Liam Hemsworth-who looks profoundly embarrassed and exhausted throughout-there may have even been a better movie than the first Independence Day. ![]() There’s a good movie buried somewhere in Independence Day: Resurgence.
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